If you know and love someone who is in the grips of a major life-altering decision, please reach out and invite them to be your guest Sunday at 10:30 AM.
Would anyone share your thoughts on what you understand the church as a person, Christ, in the saints to mean?
Beats From Your Pastor’s Heart:
2 Corinthians 3:6, “Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament (covenant); not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.”
The new covenant is based on the divine operation of the Lord’s life in us related to everything in our living.
We are enjoying Him–His very life and nature, His soul-life with His thoughts.
As we merge with Him, we find that our spontaneous reactions become just Himself.
The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, and long-suffering.
This is not something you are trying to be.
It is something that has grown and manifested itself because you are dealing with the Spirit.
Christ is operating and becoming the very content of the church in every member by our participation in His life–by eating His flesh, drinking His blood, staying before the tree of life.
As we participate in Him, He operates.
Apparently, we are just common, ordinary people.
Yet hidden within us is the divine life operating and the church becoming the expression of Christ, Himself.
This all happens by our participating in this Person.
In the new covenant God says, “I am going to write My laws within you.”
It is not going to be a ticker tape.
It is not going to be something you read outside of you telling you to love the saints and to follow the Lord in your daily life.
You are going to have a hatred within you to not touch that unclean thing.
You yourself will have a disgust.
That abhorrence is the work of Christ in your mind, in your emotion.
Follow that feeling, follow that aversion.
Just say “Amen.”
Just be one with that life, that little feeling of life.
It is not a bolt of lightning.
It is not going to overwhelm you.
It is a little feeling of life.
Follow that impulse.
That is the new covenant operating in our being.
And the more we follow the movement of God within us in our daily living–in our attitudes, in our thoughts – the more we are participating in Him.
Then the church is just a Person.
You meet a Person.
You meet Christ in the saints.
Until Tomorrow
With a Shepherd’s Love
Pastor
TODAY’S PRAYER LIST
Loretta Bailey – Funeral – Oct 23RD at Scott Ward FH
Ashley & Jason’s Friend
Bill Lawhead
Charlene Shiflett
Jeff Fowler
Richard Blount
Amy Garner’s Mother
Ashley Burn’s Sisters
Barbara Shed’s Family
Bill Moody
Carol Lawhead
Charlie Sessom – Waiting
Colby/Connor – Allison’s G’sons
Denise Stubbs – Kim Allison’s Mom
Greg Payne – Lisa’s Brother
Hanna Hall – Pray For Grace
James Garner’s Brother, G’Son, & Daughter
Kimberly – Dustin’s Sister
Larry Barker
Linda Breedlove’s Sister – Sarah
Lynn – Nancy Brown’s Daughter
Mary Sims
Marynell Ford
Michael Stanley
Nancy Brown’s Daughter
Nora Allison – Dustin’s Mom
Pastor Stucke– Nikki’s Dad
Paula Ferus’ Missionary Friend
Ricky Stubbs
Roseleigh Osborn
Scott Lanier – Linda’s Son
Shaelyn – Jill’s Friend
Sharon Blalock
Sheila Simmons Cousin
Tom Witcher